"Wet Hot American Summer"

This was great, this does such a good job of balancing absurd/gross/cruel/surreal humor with an underlying actual sweetness

Only thing is that it felt like Paul Rudd was kind of disengaged, but there's always that "oh there must've been scheduling problems with that actor" plot devices

I love the random camp slogans/rituals that were never touched on in the OG movie or prequel series that are just inserted in as-if the audience already knows them. the intentionally OTT 90s references, esp the deliberately anachronistic ones great too.

the "doing doughnuts" misdirection that built up for ten minutes also great

"Way to not shit!"

so weird seeing Joey Bragg swearing and shit since the only other thing I saw him in was Disney's Liv and Maddie

all the B. Dalton references lol

Kinda think each one of these has been better than the last due to the accumulation of nonsense.

Never-ending codas was great

Kim's Underground...B. Dalton...I'm only 2 episodes in but does Postermat and Gray's Papaya get namedropped?

Marino was amazing in this, that guy always delivers

Tbh 90s ref i laughed hardest at was barbizon

"this is our life now"

Such a great cast, but yeah, Marino definitely at/near the top for me.

And I still laugh just looking at Christopher Meloni.

opening shot of world trade center *kisses fingers*

Yeah adam scott and michael ian scott fully committing to nanny murder was great too

Xp

Er michael ian black

even though the show was intentionally being OTT obnoxious and sloppy with the 90s setting (lampooning recent fan-servicey retro tv shows), I weirdly felt like it accidentally captured the 90s better than most serious pieces set in that era. idk why.

deliberately bad GEorge H.W. Bush impersonation slaying me

"what a shitty totem pole"

"no time for chitchat"
"ok, maybe we'll talk next time"

The '90s pastiche songs over the credits are so great. That one at the end of ep 2 or 3 where it's clearly meant to sound like Alice in Chains, Chili Peppers, and Stone Temple Pilots all at the same time! Even the production and drumming is spot-on (and funny).

is craig wedren (from shudder to think) still scoring this?

it looks like he is

Aug '91 seems super specific. They purposely focused on pre-"grunge" '90s, or an era way before the term was completely burnt. It existed but the kids hadn't yet gone apeshit for grunge. So the horrible post-'80s "get with it, this is the '90s man" costume choices felt super on point.

2 or 3 of the songs towards the middle seemed like legit syncs and not Craig Wedren soundalikes. Am I nuts or were The Sundays in one episode? I didn't feel like Shazam'ing or Googling this lol

"Slacker? Oh you mean like that movie that came out 5 weeks ago?"

The whole sequence that concludes with Ronald Reagan repeating "Shit on my shit" while shaming George Bush into shitting on his shit felt like I was watching a Stella short from the early 2000s -- it felt like the logical next step past the "Dance Enis Dance" short, a blend of absurdity/awkwardness that they nail better than anyone else. This was definitely my favorite part lol.

oh whoops, there's a ***spoiler*** in that last post, but I guess this thread is full of them already.

I guess I'm kinda bummed Netflix couldn't shell out for 2 or 3 more cheap '90s syncs. Wain/TheState/Stella always did such a great job with finding the perfect/funniest song choices and it would've been cool to hear a few more of them.

still listen to "Higher and Higher" from the movie whenever I need to get amped up

my wife was laughing at me bc i was telling her how the main theme gets me pumped up and then when it kicked in i was pumping my fists dramatically

the broken wine glasses bit was great

I had the day off and the house to myself so i ate some mushrooms and watched every episode today. top notch! would watch again.

lol

Many asking us did @mshowalter purposely fall in this scene? Answer: No. https://t.co/kCyxrZR0V7 @WetHot @MargueriteMorea

— David Wain (@davidwain) August 7, 2017

that was a great fall. there were so many good moments like that.

And now there's

http://io9.gizmodo.com/wet-hot-american-summer-is-getting-its-own-comic-book-1797612515

I just realized this and Twin Peaks (ie the only two shows I'm watching) are both about characters named Coop

!

pizza is really yummy for me

the 90s lighting in that spin doctors mac & cheese sequence was so perfect.

king of the camp and rain episodes though, so great. five stars.

this was way less consistent than the prequel episodes, some of the plot lines didn't have much going for them. but the good stuff was good, the last episode was great.

Walla-walla Hoo!

omg the video call

yeah agree with iatee that the last season was funnier. this season started and ended strong, but the middle episodes coasted a bit. a lot of the plotlines were not as funny as I think they had the potential to be (like Rudd's "King of Camp")

there's one Debbie Gibson-type song they play at the dance that is phenomenally good for a style parody, from the bits I heard. waiting for the full version to surface somewhere online

The first episodes seemed almost entirely joke-free - just way too many dead patches

I still haven't got over how bad Search Party was (similar writing team) and it's made me residually grumpy about WHAS

Huh to me this is much funnier and more consistent than the prequel season.

https://soundcloud.com/craigwedren/sets/wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-selected-songs

xpost otm. not that I didn't like the prequel but I found myself being ok with watching an ep at a time whereas I blazed through this season

the prolonged Q&A after the "confetti payload" reveal was great

Rudd's plot line did feel curtailed. In King of Camp they seemed to be suggesting that he and Deegs would find some kinship and bond but then that just never happened and Deegs didn't show up again.

yeah the king of camp thing didn't really go anywhere and wasn't that great. although deegs cracked me up

i just loved the long road warrior intro to king of camp. cracked me up.

I liked Search Party!

Haven't seen Search Party but Wain isn't involved, right? WHAS humor feels very Wainy.